Archive | Telecaster
Mmmm, Humbuckers… Fender Announces ‘Blacktop’ Line Of Guitars
Well if you’re in the market for a Fender with humbuckers this post should seriously make your day… the company –– best known for a long and illustrious line of iconic single-coil loaded instruments –– has announced the release of an entire series of new instruments armed with humbuckers, including all of their biggest sellers: [...]
Continue reading...Comfy Old Vintage ’69 Fender Telecaster With Bigsby B5
11. August 2010
Here’s another of my favorites from the Bay Area World Guitar Show –– it’s a vintage ’69 Telecaster (ash body/ blonde finish/3-ply white pickguard) with an original Fender-branded Bigsby B5 unit… a good looking guitar, and really not a bad price for its era. They were asking $4500, and probably could have gotten closer to [...]
Continue reading...Fender Producing LTD Custom Shop Broadcaster Replica
9. August 2010
While we’re on the subject… it looks like Fender is currently reproducing its incredibly rare Broadcaster in a high-end Custom Shop ‘Relic’ model –– apparently the first time the guitar has been reproduced bearing its original logo. With just 200-some of the original Broadcasters built before Fender received its famous request from Gretsch to cease [...]
Continue reading...Smithsonian Channel Presents– Electrified: The Guitar Revolution
5. August 2010
Well, August is Inside the Music month over at the Smithsonian Channel, and as part of the music-related festivities the good folks at Smithsonian will be offering up something for all of you guitar lovers. Electrified: The Guitar Revolution is a documentary covering the history of what we all know to be music’s greatest invention [...]
Continue reading...Guitar Porn: A Fender Broadcaster To Die For… Just $78,500
2. August 2010
Well, we’re fresh back from the Bay Area World Guitar Show in beautiful Marin, California, and I’ve got lots of great photos to share with you… first up is this beautiful old Broadcaster, which I found sitting unassumingly in its original case, the whole thing rather buried at the back of the Exhibit Hall. Read [...]
Continue reading...Fender’s Limited Edition ‘Snake Head’ Telecaster Now In Stores
28. July 2010
After writing about it a few weeks back I’ve received a number of inquiries about Fender’s unique new Snake Head Telecaster, so I thought I’d point out that this Limited Edition Tele appears to finally be showing up in stores. The guitar, which is part of Fender’s “Telebration” celebrating 60 years since the introduction of [...]
Continue reading...Fender Introduces Vintage Pro 1963 Telecaster Custom NOS
25. June 2010
At this point I’m not entirely sure when Fender “officially” introduced these new Custom Shop Telecasters, but I’ve just become aware of them myself and thought I’d better point them out here for all of you rabid Tele fanatics. Dubbed the Vintage Pro 1963 Telecaster Custom NOS, these guitars are apparently part of Fender’s Custom [...]
Continue reading...Fender Announces ‘Tele-bration’, Celebrating 60 Years Of The Telecaster
13. April 2010
According to Fender’s Custom Shop website, the company is celebrating 60 years since the advent of the Telecaster with a ‘Tele-bration’ that includes the release of a number of gorgeous Custom Shop relics. The real stand-out to me is the 60th Anniversary Limited Telecaster Proto (left), which reproduces one of the earliest prototypes of the [...]
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16. September 2010
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